US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 15 for "Image forming apparatus capable of reversing sheet conveyance direction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,289, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus capable of reversing sheet conveyance direction" was invented by Yuki Sugiyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Tadashi Fukumuro (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akira Matsushima (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reverse roller pulls in a sheet from a first conveying path to a second conveying path by conveying the sheet in a first direction and deliver the sheet from the second conveying path to a third conveying path by reversing the conveyance direction of the sheet from the first direction to a second direction. A clutch transmits drive power of a motor...